Chen is the vice professor of Department of Cultural Industry, Taipei Municipal University of Education. In the beginning Chen devoted to painting.

From 1997 to 1999, he studied art in New York and changed his style and medium into multimedia and conceptual installation. To retain his freedom of creativity, he usually held his solo exhibitions at unconventional art space like Huashan 1914‧Creative Park, Shin Leh Yuan Art Space, and Nanhai Gallery.

Besides, he was dedicated to developing technical art and interdisciplinary art like curating Shin Leh Yuan Art Space Interdisciplinary Art Festival. Also he actively introduced artists of different nationalities and fields, encouraging them to work together.

In 2002, he established Floating Jellyfish Art Group and produced multimedia plays in interdisciplinary way. The art group was invited to perform in several major art festivals.

In 2004, it published DVD book of "The Road Not Taken." Chen has joined Asia Minor Interdisciplinary Creator Network. Chen’s crucial work includes "In-Between"(2001), "Marching‧Differences‧Connection"(2001), "Penetrate"(2002), “Paradise – The Road Not Taken”(2004), "Human Park"(2005), “Endlessness”(2006), and "Tomorrow’s World: Paradise Ocean" (2006), a multimedia dance drama which was written and directed by Chen, put on at Taipei Red Pavilion Theatre.

birth year

1967

Place of Birth

Hsinchu

Taiwan

Place of Residence

Taipei

Taiwan

education

1998

MFA Multimedia Installation Art

Queens College, The City University of New York

experience

Present Position

Department of Cultural and Creative Industries Management, National Taipei University of Education Associate Professor

In the world we are living in, truth and meaning have become invalid. The world is reaching the border, hesitating to get away from the old times and suffering a sense of helplessness when it is beyond the limit of Modernist absoluteness. Truth is ambivalent while target is unclear. Everything is ambiguous. It is an era in-between, where everything is in-between.
I base my concept on the physical quality of “entropy” to discuss and explore the new energy of a balanced “in-between. ...

Train,
Driving force of a system.
Travelers,
Diversity from clash-confrontation-conflict.
Life,
Mutual connection among environment-individual-group.
The performance first took place on a moving train, and it was later shown at Taichung No20. Stockroom in the form of multimedia video installations and live interactive performance. The work attempts to connect art and daily life, through which it explores the contradiction and a sense of loss caused by hum ...

At the moment when death is approaching,
The last sparkle of the Universe
Is spreading toward the end of the world.
Approaching, approaching, approaching,
The border between life and death.
Adopting the concept of environmental theatre, Approaching integrates installations and elements such as the abandoned rails of the sugar factory’s cane trains, the north-south trains on the other side of the wall roaring past, high towers, fireballs, square frames, seats, a ...